, 1887-02-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Culled For Our Readers From the
Brightest Exchanges.

SeTltl STORY LOT lHe IHlldutlpIllH
Ladies Journal.
General Adam Badeau is middle
aged man, short heavy set, quick Of
movement. and with cutting eye.
Sir Charlie DiIkc's new position will
be that of an unpaid volunteer in the
news service of one of the great press
agencies III London
Statistics show that In Canada. con-
trary to the general rule, Methodisn
grows faster in the cities and towns
than in the country.
DIR. Gatling, the inventor of the
Gatling CUR, lives in an unpretentious
but comfortable house near Hartford,
and goes but little into society.
General +. \. Walker declined Sena-
ter Leland Stanford's offer of the
presidency of the university soon to
spring from a Sl0,OOO,OcO egg.
Young James \. Garfield is studying
law with Judge Boynton of Cleveland,
and is said to be the most like his father
of any of the Garfield family
A remarkably rich gold mine is re-
ported to have been discovered in q
bears den in the CPur d .Alene country.
The mine is callad the BLACK Bear.
Augustus Jessup is the richest young
man in Philadelphia. lie is twenty
four years old and has an annual in
come of between S6O,0OO and $4,000.
The new freshman class ut Vassar
college is not only the largest that has
entered the Institution. but it's standard
of scholarship Is pronounced very high.
1t is said that only oue-half of one
per cent. of New York city's population
own their homes, and half of the real
estate of the whole country is mort
gagged.
At Reno. New, the boys follow ant
fighting for sport. A shoyelful of
ants from one hill dumped among those
of another colony will always fight to
the death.
The brute who gave an elephant
whiskey in Brooklyn was nearly killed
by the drunken and infuriated animal.
When he RECEIVERS he ought to be taken
in hand by the law.
The National Laundrymen's Asso-
citation, in session at Cincinnati, has
agreed that each manufacturer shall
not sell goods to Chiuumen under
penalty OF 500 for each sAie made.
Leonard W. Jerome, of New York,
allows his daughter. wife of Lord Ran
dolph Churcuiil, chancellor Of the Brit
ish exchequer, Slo,OOU per annum.
Lord Churchill's salary is S25,OOO a
year.
Fay Templeton, the comic opera
singer, who was last year divorced
from William West in Chicago, has
gone to Europe with Howell Osborne
one of the richest young men in Wall
street
American makers Of agricultural
implements are pushing their business
with such activity in foreign countries,
that the British consuls are compelled
to write letters Of an alarming charac-
ter to their government
Paper manufacturers have for years
been casting about them for some new
material for paper making The use
of peat is now an accomplished fact
A machine has been made that can
turn ont three tons an hour.
1t is a comparatively new idea that
cattle can be extensively and profitably
grazed in Canada. While it il certain
that they must need extra care in win
ter, this may be offset by freedom from
diseases incident to lower latitudes.
The colored citizens of Mobile, Ala,
held meeting recently and voted
to build an orphan asylum for colored
children, and also house of correction
in connection herewith About $780,
600 will be required for the purpose.
President Cleveland's purpose i'm
putting barbed wire fence seven feet
high around his country purchase is
now apparent. He intends to locate
his mother-in-law on the inside and
carry the key to the front gate with
him.
Mr.. Jacob Romeis of Toledo, used to
be democrat, but turned into a green
backer a few years ago. He was then
converted to republicanism. His party
now indorses prohibition, while he owns
a vineyard and drinks nothing but
beer A committee should be appointed
to determine just where he stands.
Drinking blood has become very
fashionable in Naples. Adjoining the
abbatoir, drinking saloons have beer,
lifted up, where the fresh blood from
the reeking carcasses of the slaughtered
animals are partaken of. Like all new
and unaccustomel methods of cure
wonderful effects are ascrihed to thi,
remedy, and the highest classes Of so
ciety are drinking and praisiug it.
Cooperative enterprises are now h
working order in many nnrts of fh